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Today I received an announcement that the Ovi Store is live, and products are available to end users. Great job Nokia!

Orison Tecchnologies,
 
The big day is here!  Ovi Store http://store.ovi.com is open for business!  Our thanks to you for helping to fill the shelves and get the store ready for opening day so that consumers around the world can discover your applications and content on their Nokia device.

We are working on some cool stuff as well for Ovi Store

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I think I’ve finally found a nice blog client for Mac. I’ve been searching for a while, gave try to some popular ones but no one came close to what I was looking for.

ScribeFire, its not a standalone Mac application but an add-on for Firefox. If you select to open the editor in new window, it looks much better, just like a standalone client.

Initial impressions are quite good, and this post is also been blogged from ScribeFire. I am still not very sure if this is the one, but I have a feeling that I’m gonna be using it quite well.

This was just a short review, I will be posting a detailed one after some weeks of use (hopefully :))

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I can’t imagine its been two years now since we released SWF2Go. The first ever Flash Lite developer toolkit which enabled developers to sell Flash Lite applications through regular channels.

SWF2Go Professional have made great success in these two years. We successfully released one minor version as free upgrade and one major version with exciting new features.

We are truly thankful to all the developers who have supported SWF2Go all this time and kept us motivated to bring innovative new features to Flash Lite developers.

Here I’d like to share a news. We successfully enabled Flash Lite 3.1 support in our internal builds on the 2nd day Flash Lite 3.1 was available on Adobe Labs website. The second part of the news is, there will be new features in next update, so be prepared
Have nice day!

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Never be afraid of saying anything anymore, type it in and let your phone say it for you. But be careful, don’t cross the limits

This application is freeware, made using Flash Lite and Python for S60 (PyS60) and packaged using SWF2Go v2. It demonstrates how to make powerful and engaging mobile applications using Flash Lite and PyS60 on S60 3rd Edition platform.

Symbian S60 3rd Edition SIS files and full source code is available under free source license (no license at all, have fun ;)).

Download Be My Lips and read more about it at SWF2Go Wiki

Couple of screenshots:

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After few weeks (Yea true, was bit busy with other stuff) I had a need to test an application on a S60 phone which I don’t own. So, I headed over to my favorite Nokia RDA service, which is easy to access as its now integrated into SWF2Go v2.

What I see, 3 Nokia 5800 XpressMusic devices in the pool, but guess what, long queues for them. Even for next two days people have booked the lines, WOW! (I guess I have to keep awake until 3:30am to get a chance)

Then just for fun, I go back one page Earlier from Now (14-Nov-2008 21:00), my eyes were wide open to see every single device was used in that time range. Checkout the screenshot below.

Now as you can see for yourself, this service is quite popular I don’t know if its because of addition of 5800 XpressMusic, or just happened. But I’m glad that this many developers are now using a great service by Nokia. I think there a need to add some more devices. And also bring back S60 devices from other OEMs again.

Well, by looking at the image above, it looks overloaded, I hope everyone is getting their chance to test the applications (like I did ;)) and FN guys are keeping eye on the service to keep it running smoothly.

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Finally, last night I made it. Its kinda quick and dirty, but it works, at least for me as I want it :). Here a screenshot:

I made this external help viewer for myself, but I thought if anyone who also finds Help Panel in the way most of the time when working in Flash CS3, might like to use it.

Download: FlashHelp_v01.zip

Note: Requires MS. Net Framework v2 or later. Not needed on Vista

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Today Forum Nokia sent me an email, here’s a small text from it:

We are pleased to announce that due to your active participation in the mobile development field and in the Forum Nokia Champion program in the past year, you have been re-selected to the program. Congratulations!

Nokia recharged me again to work even harder, Thanks Nokia!

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you SWF2Go Professional 2.0.

Please read the official press release at:
http://www.orison.biz/pressroom/pr_swf2go_9_9_08.aspx

The new product website www.swf2go.com is now live with dedicated forums and wiki. You can find all the details about what’s new in this major release, as well as screenshots of the product on this website.

Website: www.swf2go.com

Note: The wiki is ready, but is currently set to private access until we finalize its settings.

Update: I forget to mention, there is a 10% introductory discount offer, and its for limited time.

Once you’re ready to rock ‘n roll, you can place your order right away

Happy Flash Lite-ing!

I will be attending Mobile Developer Days 2008 in Berlin, Germany from 10-13 Sept. If anyone like to meet or have a hands-on demo, you can contact me via email or mobile.

Email: chall3ng3r@gmail.com
Mobile: +49 176 5451 5873

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Okay Flash Lite’rs, It’s time to take a peek at what we were cooking for last 6 months for Flash Lite developers. We are about to release next major version of SWF2Go Professional. As we go through final steps, I thought to make some hype

So, rather dumping the cool stuff from SWF2Go v2 User Guide, I just give you the link to it, so you can explore it for yourself. The User Guide contains screenshots of the SWF2Go v2 new user interface as well as details about all the cool new features.

Download: SWF2Go v2.0 User Guide

All the cool graphics design is done by my designer, Najam-us-Saqib. Great work boy!

To be one of the first to get the SWF2Go v2 release newsletter, subscribe now at SWF2Go product page.

Okay, now I leave you to drool over

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This is a great news. Symbian already leads the mobile OS market at 60% share, and making it Open Source and Royalty Free license will help it grow even faster.

Nokia is also going to buy Symbian Ltd. and contribute it to new Symbian Foundation, while Sony Erricson and NTT DoCoMo are also going to contribute to foundation.

Later in 2009, we will have a new Symbian OS version which will integrate all the features of S60 and UIQ into one OS. So, Adobe’s Open Screen and Open Source Symbian would be real good platform to build cool experiences.

Read more at Symbian Foundation

Also checkout the recording of the webcast.

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